I'm actually in contact with a seller that sells an old Tokai LC-110. He says the guitar is from 1980. The instrument has some little specialities that I can't identify completely, not beeing all fond with the older tokai's. Could you help me to make sure this is a legit guitar.

According to headstock motif it has to be mid/late 1981. I have a 1981 ES that has no motif but I have seen several with it..... If 1980 it should have an 110 engraved on last fret and an oval sticke i f 1981

81 tokai lc 110. I would have expected different tuners, but there arent many 110ís out there so not sure. The lc100ís had wafflebacks..(but also diamond inlay so who knows..)
Tailpiece also looks exchanged for a newer one..
I would buy that! Let me know if you donít

Probably because he doesn't know. The seller is very sweet, he's admitting that he is not the first buyer and this guitar had a life with different pro artists before. As he said, "he bought it in the belief it was a 1980 model, but he's not toally sure, whatever, he strongly believe her to be of around those times".

Ebony exists in different variations. This is obviously a piece of Macassar Ebony. Very appreciated in furniture today, and very vivid in it's brown/dark contrasts. But I agree it's very different looking than Gaboon Ebony (for example).

Yeah i know, but itís weird the ebony on this one is completely different from the one on my lc-100 and on the es-150ís.. i always thought ebony was denser.. the grain on this one looks more like regular rosewood..
Iím no expert.. just saying itís different on mine and that itís weird they used different kinds on basically the same guitar.

This LC-110 is from MY1982. The headstock inlay was only used in the 1982 Model Year ( Oct-81 to Oct-82)
I can't make out the first number, the 2nd is '0' 3rd is unclear and the last 4 are legible. It's almost like an owner was trying to replicate the 1960 Gibson serial number pattern.

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Thank you for your input. I only come checking into this forum occasionnaly because he's quite quiet.

We will probably have an incoming update because I bought this guitar. Maybe a little lot of work to do on it to become her clean, but I don't care. It will be a good project for the upcoming winter time.

http://www.wood-database.com/macassar-ebony/ Stunning guitar Harima San .Maccassar ebony is a beautiful and very expensive tonewood.Sharing as it does some of the tonal qualities of Brazilian rosewood It makes a very attractive and toneful wood for high end acoustics too._________________bluejeannot

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